So Tom Tierney-- any of you know who Tom Tierney is? Bain . Yes, he was the former CEO of Bain .And in his mid-40s in the late '90s, he quit as CEO of Bain and started up Bridgespan, which is an offshoot that
And in his mid-40s in the late '90s, he quit as CEO of Bain and started up Bridgespan, which is an offshoot that brought Bain 's consulting services to the social sector. Now, Sheryl Sandberg I know you all know.
I want to better understand how they got to where they are. Value add in Bain lingo is code for quant.
I think a lot of that comes down to core values of how you're going to build a team around you, how you're I was at Bain .
Et c'est pour elle la seule manière de s'occuper, espionner tout le monde. il y a le bain des enfants, il y a le truc et la machine
And do you want to supersize it? So he's a Bain consultant-- principal at Bain -- and he wrote this book in 1996.
a lot of things that come out of Stanford on the soft skill and holistic development side, a lot of things that come out of places like Bain where I started my career, as well as some of the instruction from top data scientists and our instructors, as well as advisors come from places like Harvard and Stanford and MIT.
so that when the treaty is signed, her bottles arrive first beating out the competition. So I worked with Bain & Company for three years on an entrepreneur personality test.
If you haven't been to Michel Guerard before, go and spend a week there. Eugenie-les-Bains -- it is outstanding. I remember my best ever dessert-- sorry, but I'm going-- my best ever dessert, and it has yet to be topped, was quite simply
It was extraordinary. So sorry. Eugenie-les-Bains -- worked there. And then you worked for Alain Chapel. I just missed Alain.
I want to better understand how they got to where they are. Then I worked in management consulting at Bain .
In medicine, as with so many other fields, AI will be most effective and will transform jobs and provide the most advantage when humans can work with it efficiently. I think there's a study by Bain that said something like 90% of companies have AI data researchers. And 10% of them have actually figured out real uses for AI.
I've become that girl. And my dad does not work at Bain . So once you have people in the door, they transform.
Oh, I should say one thing that made Takamine unique was that unlike most scientists of the time, he didn't mind patenting his processes. Do you know what a bain -marie is or a marienbad in a lab?
And he said "We've just never heard that before. And I went to work for Bain and Company, which is a consulting company.
And he said "We've just never heard that before. Dell was the smallest company that Bain had ever taken on.
I think a lot of that comes down to core values of how you're going to build a team around you, how you're MIT, Bain , they taught me how to think.
I think a lot of that comes down to core values of how you're going to build a team around you, how you're So I obviously believe that my MIT education and my Bain education-- or Bain experience-- gave me a ton in the journey.
And then the second book is into-- the first book was more about who I am. Do you need to put it in a bain -marie at all?
I thought this would give me permission to tell my parents I'm not totally crazy for leaving a job that I really cared about. I was working at a venture firm called Bain Capital. They're here, they're in Boston.
There's this girl in my down, and I was like, I can believe she pays all of that money. It's just because her dad works at Bain . I've become that girl.
Ocean being the Red Sea. and they escape from England to America and make a covenant and that covenant is defined very clearly in Lyndon Baines Johnson's inaugural address of 19 of uh 1965
became friendly with the johnson family and lucy baines johnson and linda burr
I want to better understand how they got to where they are. or application. I had a partner at Bain who was writing one of my letters of recommendation.
And we've got people like from the Bright Spots collective and others-- Bain Capital-- a collection of people and some lawyers saying,
And over what I call these 10,000 unsexy steps, of listening to the voice and then making a plan, and saving up and playing tournaments, I actually got to play my first pro tournament while still at Bain . Took a sick day.
It is the type of work that would probably be done by Bain or McKinsey today in terms of the level of analysis the case that was built for introducing this card.
So the traditional call it McKinsey, Bain model we're looking for the best graduates from the best schools who did the best internships may or may not work for them.
So the recipe begins by we've got this double boiler, a bain -marie if you're fancy.
I think a lot of that comes down to core values of how you're going to build a team around you, how you're I truly believe it was a creative that created ClassPass, not necessarily my Bain and-- That's very humble of you.
I think a lot of that comes down to core values of how you're going to build a team around you, how you're That's what helped me raise money more than me having the credibility of MIT and Bain .
It's a ridiculous idea because it's not seen as a prestigious career track when you could go to Goldman or Bain and do the same thing.
Because it doesn't-- might not add up. And then after a few more matches and a bunch more saving, I ended up leaving Bain . I took that video in the Boston airport and I moved to New Zealand.
I'll stick around for Q&A and be here afterwards to sign books. And I think the hard part, at least it was for me at Bain and maybe for you guys at Google, is once you get in that spot where you feel really
And Anders came in and did a fair amount of analytical work, working with Bain & Company actually, and determined that defense businesses,
Interesting to me that they now could do everything from conceptual consulting, much like a Bain
Bain . Yes, he was the former CEO of Bain .And in his mid-40s in the late '90s, he quit as CEO of Bain and started up Bridgespan, which is an offshoot that brought Bain 's consulting services to the social sector.
In this case, it's a governmental author, Bainbridge, who wrote a report from the National Science Foundation that's often taken as a sort of originary moment
I really think back to the last decade of my life, and honestly, even before that, when I was starting Sa and making what most people thought, in my life, was irrational decisions, going from Bain , to corporate America, to starting a company. And I lived by a different set of rules and a different methodology.
I think the parts of my life where I felt like I was split in two, whether that was younger and not feeling comfortable being Indian or American and sort of having different communities where I was different people-- and even in my career, as I got older and was at Bain , I think I felt very uncomfortable being a dancer and being creative and at the same time, obviously, being somebody who was a consultant succeeding
And she said to me, Adam, that sounds great but student debt is the only debt in the United States that you cannot declare bankruptcy on. And I remember-- you know, I have a financial background, started my career at Bain , been working at hedge funds since I was like 16.
You talked about the inflection point between Pencils of Promise and MissionU. I'd love to hear you focus on the inflection point between the kind of overachieving typical path of hedge fund, Bain , to Pencils of Promise. Sure. I had a good childhood, I mean, a great one.
At least, to me that was a safe landing. Maybe, if they'd let me back, go back to Bain . Three months turned into six months.
And we sort of called ourselves-- internally, we're sort of Young Punks Consulting-- because all the McKinsey and Bain and BCG people were much older than we were.
So after you went on this amazing journey and you went back, you got a job at Bain , right?
And I think that more than anything that's what's enabled us to succeed is the training that I had working at a hedge fund when I was 16 or Bain
experience counselor -- unbiased, non-self-serving, not an outside McKenzie or BCG or Bain but an insider. Take a look at the next one.
"Game Change" about John McCain and the infamous Sarah Palin, and you're just finishing shooting, as I recall, Lyndon Baines Johnson, the stage play LBJ--
daughter wants. She wants to travel, she wants to see more than I did, she wants to have a world that's bigger than Bainbridge Island
Anyway, he invited myself, two chefs from the UK, Claude Bosi, Sat Bains , that are actually in the current issue of Lucky Peach.